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At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Director's Cup Standings

This isn't that interesting, but I saw that the Sears Director's Cup standings were updated recently and MIchigan is 4th. This is the rankings of the overall athletic department performance....otherwise known as the competition that Stanford wins every single year.

The Director's Cup calculates a schools score by looking at the top 10 for both men's and women's sports, meaning each school's score is based on 20 teams. Does the Capital One Cup only take the top 10 overall into consideration?

So the Director's Cup includes both men's and women's sports in their calculations, but the Capital One Cup splits them up. In the Captial One Cup we are 21st in the men's standings and 9th in the women's standings. We are a solid 4th (soon to be 1st in all likelihood) in the Director's Cup which takes both into account.

The Men's Swimming natoinal championship gives us 100 points, and we will get at least 83 for our basketball team (100 if we win it all, 90 if we lose in the championship, and 83 if we lose to Syracuse). So we will jump up to at least 614.5 (hopefully 631.5), which will probably give us the lead.

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Oregon will earn 64 points for their Sweet Sixteen appearance. I can't find the full men's swimming results, so I'm not sure how many points (if any) they will get for that. The new update (4/4) will include wrestling, fencing, and women's hockey as well. The basketball points will be added on 4/11. We might be in the lead on 4/11--it could be close.

North Carolina won it the first year ('93-'94) with Stanford coming in second. Stanford has won it ever since. Also, while I was looking at the results, I noticed that Michigan has made 15 top 10 appearences, which is the most out of Big Ten schools (plus Notre Dame). They are followed by Ohio State (8), Penn State (8), Nebraska (7), Minnesota (1), and Notre Dame (1).

UNC won the Director's Cup in its inagural year. That was in the early 1990s. Stanford won it the next year and has never lost since. Frankly...it's ludicrous, by which I mean impressive.

Having said that, Stanford sponsors more varsity sports than, I believe, everyone else (and far more than most). W/r/t the Director's Cup, this is beneficial as the cup's formula puts a cap on how many men's and women's sports** can annually score for each school (meaning Stanford is more able to remove their lowest performing teams from the scoring list than everyone else).

**Anyone here aware of the official cap?

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Also helps that they are Stanford. A lot of non-revenue athletes are really good students and want a great education. They put as much work in in the classroom as they do in their sports and are generally just hard working types. Not to diminish the accomplishments of revenue sport athletes, but to put in all the work knowing you are unlikely to make a decent living after school takes a strong work ethic that often carries over to the classroom.